Pardon the rant, but if you can’t go off on your blog, where can you?
Years ago I moved from a PC to a Mac and have been happy with the decision ever since. Macs aren’t quite as wonderful as some people would have you believe, there are a number of things about mine I could rant about but, compared to what I experienced with a PC, they are nothing.
However … With my work, I’m forced to also use a PC, at least for some things. So I have a Toshiba laptop with (teeth gritted) Vista as an operating system. And here’s the thing …
I have work I have to do. I need to do it now, not later in the day, now. I go to the PC, it boots up and … wait, wait, wait. I need to use Firefox as my browser, I finally open it and …?
“Not responding.”
So I wait some more.
I have no idea why I am waiting but I have suspicions. In a word, upgrades. In another word, scanning.
It may be a problem with Firefox. It may be a problem with my McAfee security. It may be a problem with Vista. I dunno. It most likely has to do with settings that need adjustment and I guess that’s something I should do, but …
I don’t want to. I don’t think I should have to. I don’t think whatever moron set up these various software programs with their default settings should impede my ability to work now. I don’t think I should have to figure out where the problem is. I don’t think that having figured it out I should have to go in and fix it.
I think these should all be designed so that a person can use them out-of-the-box right freaking now without the delay of default settings, pop up windows and constant, insistent, interminable upgrades.
You know what an upgrade is? It’s a message that says, “Our software sucks and we’re trying to fix it.”
Using my PC is a time sinkhole. It’s an utter waste of my time. And my point in this rambling rant? All kinds of people can look at my PC or this rant and say, “Oh, just do this …”
The point is, why should I have to? Why are companies selling something that doesn’t work “as advertised” without the consumer having to fix what they screwed up?
And that’s my rant.
(Sorry, but I had to get that out of my system.) 
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